Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-18 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:51:56PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Once I get it sorted out, I'll think about whether I want to put in the time to wrap this into a useful UI, etc. It is a largish effort as I will need to unwrap all the code that extracts the data and separate it into

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-18 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 18, 2007, at 10:21 AM, John Francis wrote: Phil Harvey has now released stand-alone ExifTool executables both for Windows and for the Mac that don't require a Perl environment. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/index.html Those could be a lot more useful than

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-16 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:33:22PM +1000, jim wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:18:01 -0500, John Francis wrote: That depends on what the camera does. ShowTags just reports what the camera has put in the various fields. If the camera fills in the focal length (which I believe the K10D does if

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread jim
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:51:56 -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Under lens ID part, it has correctly picked up both a 80-320 zoom and a tamron 28-300 zoom. I have tried an A lens and all it said was a series lens. Would there be a an entry at all for the focal length entered? The camera can get the

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread jim
Just tried a Sigma 28-90 3.5-5.6 AF zoom (macro) and show tags reported the following. DNG Data: Lens Identification63 1 2 @0x032C 3 44 SIGMA 18-50mm F3.5-5.6/12-24mm F4.5/Tamron 35-90mm F4 AF Maybe a small adjustment is in order unless other lens report the same ID.

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello jim, With my K10D, when I put on a pre 'F' lens, you can put in the focal length for SR purposes. I have found that whatever focal length is entered is the focal length recorded for the shot. So you can get some idea what lens you used from that. On my *istD, you just get no information.

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:51:56PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Once I get it sorted out, I'll think about whether I want to put in the time to wrap this into a useful UI, etc. It is a largish effort as I will need to unwrap all the code that extracts the data and separate it into

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 15, 2007, at 12:48 PM, John Francis wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:51:56PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Once I get it sorted out, I'll think about whether I want to put in the time to wrap this into a useful UI, etc. It is a largish effort as I will need to unwrap all the code

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:59:13PM +1000, jim wrote: Just tried a Sigma 28-90 3.5-5.6 AF zoom (macro) and show tags reported the following. DNG Data: Lens Identification63 1 2 @0x032C 3 44 SIGMA 18-50mm F3.5-5.6/12-24mm F4.5/Tamron 35-90mm F4 AF Maybe a small

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:28:36PM +1000, jim wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:51:56 -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Under lens ID part, it has correctly picked up both a 80-320 zoom and a tamron 28-300 zoom. I have tried an A lens and all it said was a series lens. It really said A series

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread jim
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:18:01 -0500, John Francis wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:28:36PM +1000, jim wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:51:56 -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Under lens ID part, it has correctly picked up both a 80-320 zoom and a tamron 28-300 zoom. I have tried an A lens and

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-14 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Rick Womer wrote: I also do not know what the Windows root directory is. Is that the C drive? Assuming so, I put showtags.exe and the image file there, and used run from the Start menu, with filename.out added to the string. It produced a file called filename.out, but it contains nothing

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! John, you're the man! I just ran your program on one of the first files I shot with K10D and it showed the Tamron lens id properly. So, everything is cool and working, and obviously it is only a matter of proper software to decode the info. I owe you one ;-). Boris -- PDML

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread Rick Womer
John, Showtags.exe isn't as easy as you describe, at least for me. I downloaded the file (HP computer running XP), usede run from the start menu to enter the program's location and the photo's location, and a black rectangle flashed on my screen with scrolling text for about 1/5second--that was

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread Boris Liberman
Rick, you simply open a command prompt by clicking start-run and typing cmd in the window that opens. A black window will appear. From there, using command prompt DOS-style commands you can also run the showtags.exe. HTH. Boris Rick Womer wrote: John, Showtags.exe isn't as easy as you

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread mike wilson
From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007/01/13 Sat PM 05:22:38 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ? Rick, you simply open a command prompt by clicking start-run and typing cmd in the window that opens

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:13:27PM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! John, you're the man! I just ran your program on one of the first files I shot with K10D and it showed the Tamron lens id properly. So, everything is cool and working, and obviously it is only a matter of proper software

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread Rick Womer
:22:38 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ? Rick, you simply open a command prompt by clicking start-run and typing cmd in the window that opens. A black window will appear. From there, using command prompt DOS

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread P. J. Alling
It's a console app. You have to open a 'DOS' box and run it from there. The run command from the start menu won't allow you to read the output. You could redirect output to a text file on the command line then use notepad or wordpad to read the resulting ASCII file.. Rick Womer wrote:

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread John Francis
of this? Rick --- mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007/01/13 Sat PM 05:22:38 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ? Rick, you simply open a command

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread mike wilson
Rick Womer wrote: Thanks for the replies. However, I know nothing of DOS commands, and have no desire to learn them. I also do not know what the Windows root directory is. Is that the C drive? Assuming so, I put showtags.exe and the image file there, and used run from the Start menu,

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread Boris Liberman
John, On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:13:27PM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! John, you're the man! I just ran your program on one of the first files I shot with K10D and it showed the Tamron lens id properly. So, everything is cool and working, and obviously it is only a matter of proper

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-11 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi John, On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:06:40 -0500, John Francis wrote: There's a zip file, with sources, for anyone who wants it at: http://www.pdml.us/raw/ShowTags.zip OK, got it ... I've built and tested the program on Windows and on Linux, so it should be straightforward to build it for

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-11 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:04:42PM +0100, Jan van Wijk wrote: Hi John, On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:06:40 -0500, John Francis wrote: There's a zip file, with sources, for anyone who wants it at: http://www.pdml.us/raw/ShowTags.zip Compiled it without any modifications for the OS/2 (or

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-11 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi John, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:18:03 -0500, John Francis wrote: Compiled it without any modifications for the OS/2 (or eCS :-) platform. using the OpenWatcom C++ compiler Works just fine. Good. I thought I knew how to write platform-independent portable code by now, but it's nice to

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-11 Thread Doug Franklin
John Francis wrote: http://www.pdml.us/raw/ShowTags.zip Good. I thought I knew how to write platform-independent portable code by now, but it's nice to receive independent confirmation. Has some minor issues with the Visual C++ Express compiler, but mostly due to it lacking the Windows

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-11 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:28:46PM -0500, Doug Franklin wrote: John Francis wrote: http://www.pdml.us/raw/ShowTags.zip Good. I thought I knew how to write platform-independent portable code by now, but it's nice to receive independent confirmation. Has some minor issues with the

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-10 Thread mike wilson
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm particularly interested in information about the DS2/DL2, and about the K100D/K110D, and how these differ from the DS. As I'm possibly the only list member with the highly exclusive DL/2, I'll get an output file to you some time this week.

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-10 Thread John Francis
There's a zip file, with sources, for anyone who wants it at: http://www.pdml.us/raw/ShowTags.zip I've built and tested the program on Windows and on Linux, so it should be straightforward to build it for other platforms. Feel free to modify and use this as you wish; I'd appreciate it if

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 10/01/07, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A (Windows executable) version of the program I use to dump the tags can be found here: http://panix.com/~johnf/raw/ShowTags.exe It's fairly easy to use - just type ShowTags filespec1 filespec2 ... at a command prompt (wildcards

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread Doug Franklin
Digital Image Studio wrote: Excellent John, thanks for sharing that. Now if I begged would you consider a rewrite of your little app halfsize so that it could be used to work with the K10D PEF/DNG files? It's become so much a part of my RAW work-flow and makes pre-edits so much easier. And

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread Bruce Dayton
Very useful info, John. Much obliged! -- Bruce Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 2:24:05 PM, you wrote: JF Recent discussions here about Lens Identification, and JF inquiries about the cumulative frame counter, prompted JF me to revise my little program to peek around inside the JF various IFDs,

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:49:25PM -0500, Doug Franklin wrote: Digital Image Studio wrote: Excellent John, thanks for sharing that. Now if I begged would you consider a rewrite of your little app halfsize so that it could be used to work with the K10D PEF/DNG files? It's become so much a

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:39:39AM +1100, Digital Image Studio wrote: Excellent John, thanks for sharing that. Now if I begged would you consider a rewrite of your little app halfsize so that it could be used to work with the K10D PEF/DNG files? It's become so much a part of my RAW work-flow

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread Doug Franklin
John Francis wrote: How do you feel about XML? Is there a widely accepted schema? Either way, I'd end up doing both, because I hate having to drag along a huge XML parsing infrastructure for a piddly little utility. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Hey John If you send me a .zip file with the source code in C or C++, I'll see if I can build it for Mac OS X. G On Jan 9, 2007, at 2:24 PM, John Francis wrote: Recent discussions here about Lens Identification, and inquiries about the cumulative frame counter, prompted me to revise my